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VK3DRB:
How do you know the flood was mythical? That is a sweeping assumption. What evidence do you have it is mythical? There is evidence of a huge flood in the known ancient world, but the evidence does not allow us to make any definite conclusions. However, the more we poke into the past the more we learn things that overturn our assumptions.

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Circlotron:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 14, 2023, 10:13:38 am ---There is evidence of a huge flood in the known ancient world,

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Interesting to look at the makeup of the Chinese character for boat.
AndyBeez:
Flood myths do have a scientific basis. At the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago, a series of "inundation pulses" consumed much of the low laying landscapes of the pre-ancient world. From the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf, the North Sea to the Baltic, and the Bay of Bengal to the Torres Straight, land that was almost certainly inhabited by our direct ancestors vanished at a spectacular rate. One hypothesised inundation event that may have led to the Noah's Flood story, was some eight millennia ago when the rising Mediterranean overtopped the dry Bosporus Straight and flooded into the neighbouring Black Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
The memory of lands lost to floods would have persisted in the oral record until they became codified in the myths and legends of the first written texts. Interesting to note that all ancient civilisations have some form of mythology that tells of a great flood, "a long time ago." The Tiddalik from Aboriginal Australians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on June 14, 2023, 11:51:27 am ---Interesting to note that all ancient civilisations have some form of mythology that tells of a great flood, "a long time ago."

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Which could also be the case if they all descended from one surviving family.
AVGresponding:
There wouldn't be enough genetic diversity in one family, unless it was particularly large (in the thousands). Also, there hasn't been enough time for the genetic differentiation we can observe in native populations, nor enough time for them to migrate to all the long inhabited regions, which in any case have archaeological records of habitation going back tens of thousands of years in many cases.
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